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7567699 |
Center determination of rotationally symmetrical alignment marks
The invention provides a method for determining the center of a rotationally symmetrical alignment mark thereby using an image recognition software. The alignment mark is recognized by the image...
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7536035 |
Object velocity measuring apparatus and object velocity measuring method
An object velocity measuring apparatus of this invention for measuring an object velocity in a photographic field from a plurality of photographic frames made up of a plurality of pixels comprises...
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7532766 |
Method and system for producing formatted data related to geometric distortions
A processing system and method for producing formatted information related to appliances of an appliance chain. This appliance chain includes at least one image-capture appliance and/or at least...
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7474441 |
Image processing device, method, program and recording medium recording the program
When the image data having a predetermined gradation value for each pixel is input, and the image data is searched from the initial pixel and the total of the gradation values of the pixels,...
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7457481 |
Apparatus and method for labeling rows and columns in an irregular array
The apparatus and method of the invention provide for assigning coordinates to samples in an array. The method is based on a hierarchical pattern matching to a local lattice structure that is used...
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7426290 |
Nonparametric method for detection and identification of regions of concern in multidimensional intensity images
A method for detection and identification of regions of concern in multidimensional intensity images using a template and a nonparametric test is presented. Data corresponding to background...
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7418110 |
Method and apparatus for compressed-domain watermarking
A method and apparatus for inserting a low frequency watermark into a compressed data stream carrying compressed content is disclosed. A portion of the compressed data stream is decoded to generate...
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7409107 |
Input device, information device, and control information generation method
An input device which generates control information by moving an object to be detected, having an image capture section which captures an image of the object to be detected, a feature point...
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7352888 |
Method for computer recognition of projection views and orientation of chest radiographs
A method for identifying a projection view and an orientation of a chest radiograph. The method includes the steps of: providing an input digital image of the chest radiograph; preprocessing the...
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7305089 |
Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same
The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing...
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7302576 |
Systems and methods for authenticating documents
Methods and systems for authenticating documents. Document data to be modified to contain authentication is inputted. A representation is determined from the document data. Assist information that...
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7283679 |
Image processor and method thereof
An image-processor for shooting images at a high frame rate in time series maintaining a high sensitivity and a high speed is provided. The image-processor comprises a high-speed image-obtaining...
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7215826 |
Rendering three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data to two-dimensional contrast and range mappings thereof
A rendering method converts three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data to two-dimensional contrast and range maps thereof. A temporal portion of the STIL data is processed for each...
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7167602 |
Interpolation pixel value determining method
Disclosed is an interpolation pixel value determining method for dividing a unit region including the contour of an object into reference unit sections for each line along a predetermined...
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7162102 |
Method and system for compositing images to produce a cropped image
A method for producing a cropped digital image, includes the steps of: providing a plurality of partially overlapping source digital images; providing a cropping aspect ratio L:H, the cropping...
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7146062 |
Apparatus and method for labeling rows and columns in an irregular array
The apparatus and method of the invention provide for assigning coordinates to samples in an array. The method is based on a hierarchical pattern matching to a local lattice structure that is used...
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7133537 |
Method and apparatus for tracking a moving object
A method of tracking an object moving relative to a scene includes generating a background image by acquiring a plurality of images of the scene and comparing a pair of comparison images with the...
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7110618 |
Digital image analysis of reflecting markers
The subject of the invention is a system for photogrammetric determination of centers of gravity of signal markers in moving objects. For reduction of the herein produced image data prior to the...
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7082225 |
Two dimensional image recording and reproducing scheme using similarity distribution
In a two dimensional image recording and reproducing scheme, a position of a prescribed pattern in an information recording image that contains the prescribed pattern is detected by detecting a...
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7053929 |
Center of mass detection via an active pixel sensor
An imaging system for identifying the location of the center of mass (“COM”) in an image. In one aspect, an imaging system includes a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in a matrix....
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7035465 |
Systems and methods for automatic scale selection in real-time imaging
A system and method for automatic scale selection in real-time image and video processing and computer vision applications. In one aspect, a non-parametric variable bandwidth mean shift technique,...
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RE38908 |
Security system for notification of an undesired condition at a monitored area with minimized false alarms
The present invention is a security monitoring system which effectively monitors a large number of areas in a cost effective manner using already existing communications infrastructure. More...
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6965396 |
Video-centroid integrated circuit
An analog, single integrated circuit for providing centered video images. A light detector array which can be, e.g., a CCD or an array of phototransistors or silicon retinas, is scanned out to...
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6895102 |
Probability weighted centroid tracker
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a system for tracking a target is provided that includes an image sensor mounted to a gimbal for acquiring an image, wherein the image...
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6891961 |
Image analysis systems for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal carcass
The invention is an image analysis system and method for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal. One embodiment of the invention is particularly...
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6888958 |
Method and apparatus for inspecting patterns
The difference data between the real patter data Sij, and a 5×5 window with a noticed pixel in the center and the design pattern data Rij obtained by the design pattern data of the window being...
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6876779 |
Method and apparatus of reconstructing audio/video/image data from higher moment data
A method and apparatus of reconstructing data from higher moment data. The method and apparatus include performing a finite Radon transform, generating an average function to allow inversion of...
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6804380 |
System and method for acquiring tie-point location information on a structure
An apparatus and method are described for acquiring tie-point target locations on a structure that eliminates the need for the user to manually identify features that can be used to register...
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6801643 |
Anatomical visualization system
The present invention provides an anatomical visualization system comprising a first database that comprises a plurality of 2-D slice images generated by scanning a structure. The 2-D slice images...
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6795565 |
Method to detect watermark resistant to resizing and translation
A method of detecting a block-based watermark is provided. The method detects the location of the watermark within a frame of content data regardless of whether the watermark has been shifted or...
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6785409 |
Segmentation method and apparatus for medical images using diffusion propagation, pixel classification, and mathematical morphology
A method of digital imaging includes receiving image data and fitting a curve to boundaries within the image data. The curve is fit to the boundaries within the image data by extracting a region of...
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6771841 |
Determining a bounding shape for a collection of points
A multi-dimensional bounding sphere is determined for a collection of points by determining a multi-dimensional bounding box that encompasses all of the points, determining the center of the...
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6766056 |
Image pattern detection method and apparatus
Disclosed is method of detecting a predetermined mark ( 30 ) forming part of an image. A digitized form ( 48, 49 ) of the image ( 21 ) comprising a plurality of picture elements is provided and...
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6760473 |
Optical proximity correction serif measurement technique
An OPC feature measurement technique accurately measures serif area of OPC features, feature separation and line symmetry, and is especially useful for measuring dimensions which are less than...
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6751344 |
Enhanced projector system for machine vision
A method for optically scanning a subject having a three-dimensional surface contour includes illuminating the subject with a matrix of discrete two-dimensional image objects such as a grid of...
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6748121 |
Intelligent interpolation methods for automatic generation of an accurate digital elevation model
The present invention relates generally to interpolation methods for automatic generation of an accurate digital elevation model, and more particularly relates to intelligent interpolation methods...
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6714675 |
Autogrid analysis
A method and apparatus for identifying the orientation and positions of the elements of a grid in an image. The elements of the grid need not be parallel to the sides of the image, and the image...
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6574375 |
Method for detecting inverted text images on a digital scanning device
A method and apparatus for detecting proper page orientation of a scanned document image. The document is subdivided into a series of word boxes. The number of ascending and descending text...
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6529616 |
Technique for accurate color-color registration measurements
A special test pattern and image quality analysis system and process for evaluating the test pattern are provided to accurately measure color-color registration in an image output device that...
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6498863 |
Method, system, and product for analyzing a digitized image of an array to create an image of a grid overlay
A method, system, and product for analyzing a digitized image of an array to create an image of a grid overlay. The method comprising the steps of locating the center of each object on the array,...
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6477273 |
Centroid integration
Patterns in an image or graphical representation of a dataset are identified through centroid integration. The image or graphical representation is digitized. A collapsed image is created by...
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6332038 |
Image processing device
The present image processing device includes an image obtaining device which obtains an electronic image (still image) or a series of electronic images (moving image), an image extraction...
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6304673 |
Method and device for automatic matching of seal prints
A method and device for automatic matching of seal prints abstracts feature points of a seal print by finding centers of mass of a number of selected areas of the seal print and processing the...
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6292173 |
Touchpad computer input system and method
A method of and system for providing user input to a computer captures a first finger position image at a first time and a second finger position image at a second time. The first and second finger...
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6215890 |
Hand gesture recognizing device
A hand gesture recognizing device is provided which can correctly recognize hand gestures at high speed without requiring users to be equipped with tools. A gesture of a user is stereoscopically...
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6215494 |
Method and system for centering image objects
A method for centering a plurality of images which are snapshots of an object seen at a plurality of orientations, including computing modification parameters for the images, and modifying the...
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6157748 |
Method for processing endoscopic images obtained with multicore fibers or multifibers using a barycenter or maximum intensity pixel thereof
A method and apparatus for processing a digitized image obtained by a multicore fiber or a multifiber, including calculating for each core of the multicore fiber or the multifiber, a transmitted...
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6128417 |
Image partition moment operators
The method determines how transformations in a piecewise-polynomial image model affect the model's fidelity. Up to third order two-dimensional polynomials are supported. The fidelity measure is the...
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6108444 |
Method of grouping handwritten word segments in handwritten document images
A method and system of recognizing handwritten words in scanned documents, wherein by processing a document containing handwriting, features for word localization are extracted from handwritten...
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6084986 |
System and method for finding the center of approximately circular patterns in images
A center of an approximately circular pattern in a physical image can be determined by scanning the physical image to produce an array of digital values. The array of digital values are used to...
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